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When I was first hired here, during the second week of my employment, my office mate--the DBA--seemed to flip out. Her name was Ruth and she had shoulder-length bright red hair. One day, Ruth emitted a blood-curdling scream. After I peeled myself off the ceiling, I turned around to look at her. She fastened her hair together in two pig tails. Each stuck out over an ear at a 90 degree angle to the side of her head.

She then stood, and hopped. Each time she came down she screamed "Ung!". She hopped out of our office, each hop punctuated by "ung". She hopped down the hall. She hopped to the front of the building, turned around, hopped back, hopped into our office, across the floor, and back to her chair. She calmly sat, unfastened the pig tails and let her hair fall back in place. She then turned around, and resumed work.

o_O

I got up and looked down the hall. Nothing. I walked past each office, even the leader's office. Nothing. Everyone's fingers were busy tapping out documents of code. I walked to the front of the building where the receptionist was busy typing something up.

"Barbara," I asked, "did you just see Ruth?"

She looked up at me, having been distracted, and stated "Yes. She does that all the time. Nothing to worry about." She resumed work. I returned to my work.

Barbara was correct. Ruth did do that all the time.

What exactly is this gmailer thing that everyone is talking about, anyway?

It's a different way of organizing e-mail and it happens to make more sense to a lot of people.

For people who like to keep everything, it solves a lot of issues - storage space (1G), searching for a message quickly (it's Google, 'nuff said), a different approach to sorting (filters instead of folders). It also packages messages together into "conversations" to try to help you group things.

It's a different way of organizing e-mail and it happens to make more sense to a lot of people.

For people who like to keep everything, it solves a lot of issues - storage space (1G), searching for a message quickly (it's Google, 'nuff said), a different approach to sorting (filters instead of folders). It also packages messages together into "conversations" to try to help you group things.